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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. OCTOBER 15.1981
46th YEAR. No. 25
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Single Bid IWay Win Public Worics
Two Jipprehended Village Building And Land
In Gas Stetion May Go To Scalamandres
Hold-up
COORDINATING A FASHtON EVENT. Mrs. Adrian Persico fl ) of
Freeporl, Is having Ihls year's Annual Frock and Bonnet Sale,.wMcti
will benefit Family Service Assocfatfon^of Nassau County. This sale of
designer fashions, gently-used dresses and sportswear and nostalgia
articles, will lie held on Friday and Saturday, Octotier 23-24, 10 am-
4 pm, at Cathedral House, 50 Cathedral Avenue in Qarden City.
Admission will be $1. FreeporterMrs.GeorgePopkin,amemt>erof the
committee, joins in making plans for the sale, which also includes new
costume jewelry designed by Omni Creations, housewares, books and
chrysanthemum plants.
Coolfdge School Sale Voie
Wednesday, Ocf. 21 ^ •-
BALDWIN - Residents in the Baldwin School District will go to the
polls on Wednesday, October 21. to vote on a referendum for the sale
of Collidge School. Chiaro Associates, has offered to buy the school
building and its 1.078 acre parcel of property for S175.000.
Ralph Chiaro. president of Chiaro Associates, is a long-time Baldwin
resident. He proposes to convert
FREEPORT - ViUage police
officers were joined by Nassau
County Police Special C^rations
units and a County police heli­copter
in apprehending two
suspects in the tobbcry Tuesday
afternoon. October 13, of a Pbwer
Test Gasoline station on East
Merrick Road, just west of
MeadowbtDok Parkway.
According to Freepott police
officers, the two arrested were
Hugh Henry. 17, of 165 North
Columbus- Avenue, and Jerry
DameU Walden, also 17. of 160
Colonial Avenue, both in
Freeport.
At approximately 1:45 pm
Tuesday afternoon. Freeport
police received a telephone call
that there had been a "stick-up"
ofthe gas station.
The two men. witnesses said,
ran • into the Moiey Rigby
1 apartment building on Albany
' Avenue. In an attempt to appre­hend
the suspects, more police
FREEPORT - Only one bid has been received fortbe purchase of
the Village of Freepott's munidpany owned PubUc Works building and
adjacent land. Returnable and opened on Monday. October 5. the bid
was from Fred and Joe Scalamandre, owners of Sea Crest Cqpstniction
Corp. on MiU Road in Freeport, The Scalamandres are also owners
of a local yacht club and tennis
• dub; builders of a luxury condo­minium
apartment "building on
Randall Bay; and Freeport
residents! Sea Crest Construction
has been involved in many major
building projects throughout the
Long Island area.
The Scalamandre brothers' bid
for the Albany Avenue property
was 5675,000. S75,000 more than
the upset price. The 17.760
square foot Public Works building
is located on a waterfront site of
145.795 square feet, 2.87 acres
of which are undeveloped.
According to a spokesperson
for Mayor William H. White's
office, the Scalamimdres — if
their bid b accepted — would
relocate their office headquarters
to the Albany Avenue site.
'Tented As Saleable
_ When the Village first pro­posed
to sell the Public Works
ere called out, and the County buUding and move that munidpal
the school building, at a cost of
approximately SI million, into
approximately 20. condominium
apartment units. His company, an'
engineering/architectural firm
based in New York City, has had
extensive experience in quality
renovations and conversions.
According to a spokesman for
the School District, negotiations
for the sale of the property took
place over several months with
proposals by other groups
received and reviewed.
• Coolidge School was closed in
June. 1980 because of declining
enrollment in the district and
implementation of a reorganiza­tion
plan which sent its students
to Plaza and Brookside Schools.
In selling the school, the School
District's goal is to return the
propert>- to the tax roles and. if
possible, to upgrade the area
which is in the center of town.
The School Board has stressed iu
feeling that the sale to Chiaro »ill
accomplish this.
Several community groups
including the Property Disposal
Committee, which was set up
during the reorganization process
and which consists of community
members, approved the sale. The
Baldwin Public Library Board of
Trustees as well as the executive
board of the Mid-Baldwin
Assodation also approved the
sale.
The design, which Chiaro sub­mitted,
includes extensive
landscaping around the borders
of the property and maintenance
of the existing outside structure
of the building. Blueprints of
individual units seem to use
existing space creatively with
several duplex units pictured.
units and helicopter arrived on
the scene.
At about 2:30 pm, Freeport
police received information as to
in which apartment the two
suspects were. Freeport Police
Sgts. Carmine Napolhano and
Frank Medaglia, Lt. Joe Bachety
and Det. Julius Pearse, assisted
by P.O. William Olsen, entered
the apartment and arrested
Henry and Walden.
As THE LEADER went to press
late Tuesday night, the two had
been taken to Nassau County's
First Precinct to be processed.
Any resident who has not voted
within the last two years must
register in order to be eligible to
vote. The last day of regist.-ation
at District Offices on Hastings
Street is Friday. October 16.
Residents who have voted in a
school district ot regular county.
state or Federal elections within
the last two years are already
registered and eligible to vote.
Polls on October 21 will be open
7 am - 10 pm at Baldwin Senior
H»Bh School.
Important
Notice
Ihie to new postal regu­lations,
publirity releases
and all other correspondence
to THE LEADER should be
addressed to P.O. Box 312.
Freeport, N.y. 11520.
While our offices are still
on the fourth floor of tlie
Olive Building. 18 East
Sunrise Highway, the use
of a street address on the
mail wil\ delay it reaching
us and perhaps cause your
release to anive too late -
for inclusion in THE
LEADER.
department to the vacant village
owned former Sewer Department
building, the Albany Avenue land
was touted as being extremely
saleable. Antidpating the sale,
when preparing the 1981-82
munidpal )iudget in December of .
1980, the Board of Trustees
figured in an additional $300,000
in revenue. This amount. White
said at the time, was what they
felt would' be the amount they
would receive after deducting the
costs of moving Public Works and
renovating the Sewer Plant for
that department.
A village-retained architect,
Sigmund Spiegal, told the Board
of Trustees in December that it
would be "sound judgement" to
sell one of tfie two munidpally
ovraed buildings, Ihus putting at
le^t one back on the tax roles. In
his estimation, he said then, the
Public Works fadlity was the
more saleable of the two
properties.
At that time, the Board of
Trustees was told there were two
parties interested in the property.
According to a \-iIlage source this
week, one was Scalamandre. the
other Doninger Metal of Buffalo
Avenue. This latter company.
THE LEADER has been told, has
recently purchased ot leased
another building in the village's
industrial area and is therefore no
longer interested in the Albany
Avenue site.
Following the village's decision
to sell the Public Works property,
an advertisement for its sale was
placed in the New York Times.
Those companies who'answered
that advertisement, as well as
some, such as Cablevision, which
were considered possible pur­chasers
of such property, were
sent ._ the bid sjwcifications.
AcconUng' to -. village sources,
nearly 100 sm* Hd specs.'>«rer^
maileid...and only the one bid
received back.
The bid'specs require'that the
purchaser of. the site guarantee
the construction of an additional
.50.000 square feet. The property,
which borders Freeport River,
cannot be bulkheaded, according
to the New York State Depart­ment
of Conservation, but must
use a "rip rap" method for the
full shore width of the property.
This stipulation. Mayor White is
said to believe, eliminated some
otherwise interested buyers.
A certified check of $25,000 had
to be deposited with any bid.
If the bid is accepted, and it
probably will be at the next
meeting of the Board of Trustees
(Monday, October 19), the closing
is set for on or about December 4.
Accotd'mg to the specs, the
village would begin to pay $5,000
a month in rent for every month
they remained in the buUding
after that date. Village sources
expect it would take aix>ut 12
months for Public Works to
complete the whole move.
Nab 2, Seek 1 In
Rnance Co. Hoid-Up
FREEPORT - One of three
suspects was still being sought
Tuesday night by Freeport police
foUoniag a hold-up the day
before of the Freeport Beneficial
Finance Office on West Merrick
Road. Two Freeport men have
been charged with . Robbery
Second in Ac Monday, October
12 inddent.
According to police, three men
wearing blue ski masks entered
the Finance company's store­front
office at about 1:40 pm.
brandishing at the three employ­ees
what allegedly later turned
out to be a toy hand gun.
Making off with $540 in
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